Comments on: A quick update… http://blog.droiby.net/2009/02/22/a-quick-update/ Where the right and left brains meet Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: James Wong http://blog.droiby.net/2009/02/22/a-quick-update/#comment-577 James Wong Sat, 23 May 2009 13:45:40 +0000 http://blog.droiby.net/?p=166#comment-577 HAHAHAHA!!! Your comment is soooo funny because I've thought of EXACTLY that same thing for wedding seating arrangement. I thought about assigning weights, etc. I've thought about doing it for my wedding but never got around to it. I was thinking about whether or not something like this would be possible to sell commercially. In the end, the more I thought about it, the more impractical it seems to have such a system. Hardly anyone would want to fill in all the information needed to come up with an appropriate weight. And in the end, we would be happy with a sub-optimal result if it means that we don't have to waste time filling in all the relationship information. :) btw. ImageMagick is pretty handle for auto generating graphics. HAHAHAHA!!! Your comment is soooo funny because I’ve thought of EXACTLY that same thing for wedding seating arrangement. I thought about assigning weights, etc. I’ve thought about doing it for my wedding but never got around to it. I was thinking about whether or not something like this would be possible to sell commercially. In the end, the more I thought about it, the more impractical it seems to have such a system. Hardly anyone would want to fill in all the information needed to come up with an appropriate weight. And in the end, we would be happy with a sub-optimal result if it means that we don’t have to waste time filling in all the relationship information. :)

btw. ImageMagick is pretty handle for auto generating graphics.

]]> By: droiby http://blog.droiby.net/2009/02/22/a-quick-update/#comment-556 droiby Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:14 +0000 http://blog.droiby.net/?p=166#comment-556 Yeah, mail merge -- I'm sorting out the table placecards :) I've also thought of writing some app that will automatically work out "optimal" table arrangements, where you can assign weights between two people (positive to put people together, negative to separate them), constraints (e.g. table size) and score each table based on sum of weights between the people assigned to that table. The algorithm works out the some permutation so as to maximise the sum of the scores. Maybe later ... Yeah, mail merge — I’m sorting out the table placecards :)

I’ve also thought of writing some app that will automatically work out “optimal” table arrangements, where you can assign weights between two people (positive to put people together, negative to separate them), constraints (e.g. table size) and score each table based on sum of weights between the people assigned to that table. The algorithm works out the some permutation so as to maximise the sum of the scores.

Maybe later …

]]> By: Kelvin http://blog.droiby.net/2009/02/22/a-quick-update/#comment-554 Kelvin Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:31:26 +0000 http://blog.droiby.net/?p=166#comment-554 Is your Perl/LaTeX bits implement some sort of mail merge, or does it involve some random number generation? I'm curious... Is your Perl/LaTeX bits implement some sort of mail merge, or does it involve some random number generation? I’m curious…

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